Digital content programmes: Wales
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This list of current projects has been submitted byCyMAL - Museums, Archives, Libraries Wales
Casgliad y Werin Cymru/People’s Collection Wales
Funded by the Welsh Assembly Government and launched in August 2010, the People’s Collection Wales is a collaborative digital interpretive platform for cultural heritage in Wales. Initial content has been contributed by the National Library of Wales, Amgueddfa Cymru – National Museum Wales, Culturenet Cymru and the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historic Monuments of Wales. Other partners include the BBC, S4C, Visit Wales, NGfL Cymru, and the Ramblers Association Wales. The People’s Collection Wales invites everyone (including institutions, organisations, community groups and individuals) to discover, contribute and share in the heritage of Wales and uses innovative technological methods to display and interpret cultural heritage material.
National Library of Wales
The National Library of Wales is one of the 6 UK and Ireland legal deposit libraries, a Royal Charter body, Registered Charity and Assembly Government Sponsored Body. The Library is working to increase the amount of its multimedia collection material available online, and also provides electronic services and resources through its website
- Digital Mirror is the homepage for the National Library of Wales’ digital programmes and digital policy information
- Information is available on the Library’s digitisation strategies and policies and on the Library’s current digitisation projects
- The 2007 report on the Library’s Theatr y Cof / Theatre of Memory digitisation programme is currently being reviewed.
- Welsh Journals Online contains back-issues of up to 50 titles, ranging from academic and scientific publications to literary and popular
Culturenet Cymru
Culturenet Cymru Ltd is a not-for-profit private company limited by guarantee, based at The National Library of Wales. Culturenet Cymru collaborates with heritage bodies and community groups throughout Wales to develop a range of innovative projects. With a firm emphasis on lifelong learning and social inclusion, our aim is to produce high-quality online resources that explore and promote the heritage and culture of Wales.
Culturenet Cymru’s project websites include:
- Gathering the Jewels
- Community Archives Wales
- Their Past Your Future
- Glaniad
- 100 Welsh Heroes
- Books from the Past
- Cultured Cymru
These are all available through this link.
Amgueddfa Cymru – National Museum Wales
Amgueddfa Cymru – National Museum Wales is a Royal Charter body, Registered Charity and Assembly Government Sponsored Body. It consists of 7 sites in Wales: the National Museum Cardiff, St Fagans National History Museum, the National Waterfront Museum, Big Pit: National Coal Museum, the National Wool Museum, the National Roman Legion Museum, and the National Slate Museum.
Intrinsically linked with its work on Casgliad y Werin Cymru/People’s Collection Wales, Amgueddfa Cymru – National Museum Wales has created Rhagor (Welsh for ‘More’) – a digital platform to explore the more than 4 million items in the national collections and extend the reach of the Museum’s work to local, national and global audiences. Rhagor was launched in August 2007 and is designed to grow steadily as more information on the national collections is added. The site includes articles, image galleries and interactive resources.
Archives Network Wales
Maintained by the Archives and Records Council Wales, and part of the UK’s National Archives Network, Archives Network Wales is an online catalogue allowing a single search across more than 7,000 collections of historical records in the holdings of 21 archives in Wales. The site enables users to identify the location of collections of records and plan visits to their physical locations.
Library portal
The Welsh Assembly Government’s library strategy (Libraries for Life) provides funding for a library portal which is a central place for library staff and users to find out about their libraries in Wales, or to have links to quality websites on a range of relevant topics e.g. homework help, or to access some of the online subscriptions remotely e.g. the newspapers, or to use other resources such as Cat Cymru, or link to Ask Cymru. The National Library of Wales leads on the development of the portal on behalf of Welsh libraries in co-operation with CyMAL.
Library strategy – online subscriptions
The Welsh Assembly Government’s library strategy (Libraries for Life) provides funding for a variety of online subscriptions for libraries in Wales. All libraries have free access to newspapers, and to an European database. Public libraries also have access to a family history subscription and currently to a music and art subscription service. The National Library of Wales leads on the online subscriptions for Welsh libraries in co-operation with CyMAL.
Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Wales (RCAHMW)
The Royal Commission is the investigating body and national archive for the historic environment of Wales. It has the lead role in ensuring that Wales' archaeological, built and maritime heritage is authoritatively recorded and understood, and seeks to promote appreciation of this heritage nationally and internationally.
All Wales library catalogue – Cat Cymru
As part of the Welsh Assembly Government’s library strategy (Libraries for Life), an all-Wales library catalogue has been created – Cat Cymru. People can search over 50 libraries in one go, including the public libraries, university, college and some specialist libraries including the National Library of Wales. Items can also be reserved (where applicable) online, and members of the public can also join their local public library online. Access is direct from the library portal . The National Library of Wales leads on the development of the catalogue on behalf of Welsh libraries in co-operation with CyMAL.
Coflein
Coflein is the online database for the National Monuments Record of Wales which is a national collection of information about the historic environment of Wales. Coflein allows access to details of many thousands of archaeological sites, monuments, buildings and maritime sites in Wales, together with an index to the drawings, manuscripts and photographs held in the NMRW archive collections.
Welsh Ballads
The Welsh Ballads project fills the final gap in the network of digitized collections of printed ballads around Britain, the Bodleian, National Library of Scotland and Glasgow University having undertaken projects on English and Scottish ballads already; between them these three contain about 30,000 ballads. Cardiff University with the National Library of Wales and Bangor and Lampeter university libraries hold the main Welsh printed ballads collections (in both Welsh and English). A total of 5,000 ballads are being digitized, from the earliest 18th Century ballads to the final few published in the 20th Century. In total this will produce around 20,000 pages of digitized text images (all out of copyright).
Archif Menywod Cymru / Women’s Archive of Wales
The Archif Menywod Cymru / Women’s Archive of Wales (AMC/WAW) scheme is an online approach to archiving material relating to women in Wales. Relevant material is deposited at local archive and record offices or the National Library of Wales if the items are of national significance, and placed under the name of AMC/WAW. Their material is searchable under the Archives Network Wales catalogue, and they are also working with the People’s Collection Wales to ensure equality representation in the material in that strategy.
Welsh Repository Network
The Welsh Repository Network is a JISC funded project for university libraries in Wales to collaborate on shared repositories of research, from 2007-11. The ongoing project helps to address the Welsh Assembly Government's One Wales objectives in respect of improving institutional efficiency, increasing capacity and encouraging collaboration, but also helps to make a significant contribution to the overall aims and objectives of the JISC Repositories and Preservation Programme.
World Cultures in Wales
World Cultures in Wales provides the results of a survey into the size, quality and scope of non-European collections in the custody of museums in Wales. The project was undertaken between 2004 and 2007, and the site is still active but is no longer updated.
Linking the Chain: A Network for Digital Heritage in Wales
This AHRC funded project aims to create a pan-Wales network of key academic and non-academic partners around the major theme of digital heritage to establish a detailed agenda and set of activities in the field of digital heritage in Wales. The network includes academic institutions, commercial organisations, museums, libraries and archives. Contact: June Landeg jlandeg@glam.ac.uk on 01443 482788
Her y We
Her y We offers activities, games, tools and resources aimed at primary and secondary school children on the themes of books and reading. It has been developed by one local authority in north Wales for use by others and is available bilingually in both Welsh and English.
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